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TORREZ v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

No. 1 CA-IC 1303.

25 Ariz. App. 391 (1975)

543 P.2d 1148

Porfirio TORREZ, Petitioner, v. The INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION of Arizona, Respondent, Hecla Mining Company, Respondent Employer, Commercial Union Assurance Companies, Respondent Carrier.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department C.

December 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Jones, Tucson, for petitioner.

Greg L. Folger, Chief Counsel, The Industrial Commission of Arizona, Phoenix, for respondent.

Jones, Teilborg, Sanders, Haga & Parks by William R. Jones, Jr., Phoenix, for respondents employer and carrier.

OPINION

NELSON, Presiding Judge.

On February 4, 1973, the petitioner, Porfirio Torrez (Torrez), was hospitalized in Tucson, Arizona for diagnostic studies. Dr. Morton Fuchs, a specialist in internal medicine diagnosed Torrez' condition as pulmonary fibrosis associated with silicosis.

Torrez had been a miner almost all of his adult life. He had worked in coal mines from 1942 to 1951 and in hard rock mines from 1951 until shortly before his hospitalization...

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